Chapter 14: A New Home
The rebuilding of the house went quite smoothly, and thanks to the help of the spell, it didn't take much effort to dismantle or build, and the white wolf and the wizard were busy for a long time, and almost used up all the materials available in the ruins, and a new house was finally built.
In order to make the house stronger, and perhaps because the dragon spewed fire into the village, the new house was not a mix of brick and wood, but a pure masonry structure. The White Wolf used earth and fire magic to melt the bricks together, which had the advantage of increasing the strength of the brick walls.
The house is divided into three floors, the basement is a storage warehouse, all the remaining food and materials are stored in it, the white wolf counted, and now there are a small amount of vanilla mushrooms, purple leaf potato rhizomes, radishes, meat, eggs and sealed rice wine. There was also a lot of grain piled up next to these things, enough for the two humans living in this house to eat for about half a year.
In addition to this, the mercenaries' weapons and armor were also placed here, a total of 20 swords, 5 burnt bows, a small number of arrows, and 20 rudimentary armor.
The dragon's egg was also placed in the basement, and instead of being destroyed in the explosion, it became more vibrant, and the flickering red fluorescent spots on the eggshell became much brighter than before, and although there was no hope, the white wolf put the dragon egg in the haystack, after all, if he could hatch a small dragon, it would make a lot of money.
The second floor of the house is the first floor, and if you walk in from the outside, you will find the hall, and there is a long table with many short tables in the hall, which can be used for office, reception, dining, etc. Further down the hall to the left, there is a bathroom, and there is no such thing as a shower or flush toilet yet, so the white wolf decided to build one of his own in the future. To the right of the hall is the kitchen, which is filled with spices, pots and pans, salt and other cooking tools and materials, and the white wolf's dream has finally come true, and he can finally try to make some dishes that the world has made him want to forget.
The third floor is mainly the bedroom, because of the lack of materials, now can only make a big bed, the white wolf now does not plan to sleep with the two girls, he prefers the wool stall in the hall, the carpet is soft, quite comfortable, according to Lika, this is the village chief's family heirloom blanket, the white wolf calmly took this blanket as his own bed.
At this moment, the white wolf and the two girls were staying in the hall, staring at the two documents and examining them carefully, which the white wolf had taken from the bald man who had died farthest away not long ago, the first document was a piece of paper, on which was written the mercenary contract between the duke and the mercenary team, and it was stamped with two seals, one was the black wolf family crest of the duke's family, and the other was the notarized balance seal of the Holy Light Church, and next to the two seals were two red thumb prints, according to Elisa's guess, these two thumb prints should belong to the mercenary leader and the bald manγγ
The other is a map, which looks like a map of the forest, but it can be seen that this map doesn't seem to be accurate, and the white wolf can confirm that this small village is not marked in this map, and the locations of several places that the white wolf is familiar with are also drawn incorrectly, and it seems that the guy who made this map is not very careful.
"In that case, does that mean that the church has also joined the side against the Cauchy family?" asked the white wolf, pointing to the church seal on the contract, and after the introduction of the witch, he now had a general idea of what had happened to her and her family.
The Cauchy family is a powerful family in the far south of the human world, once the ruler of the region, and until 200 years ago when they succumbed to military pressure from the Elfit Empire, they were a political entity with blood ties as the most important bond, resisting the invasion of wild beasts and dark creatures on the edge of the human world.
After compromising with the Empire, the Cauchy family gave up some of their military autonomy and territorial jurisdiction, which was manifested in responding to the Empire's military operations, providing troops and foster care for the Empire, not having a private army of more than 10,000 people, and not hindering the Empire's merchants from doing business here for any reason, etc.
In order to gain more dominion over the Far South, the former Emperor of Elfit, Lucaster the Wise, established a large duke in the region ruled by the Cauchys, which effectively encompassed not only the Cauchy family's domains, but also several traditional imperial counties.
At that time, the old emperor directly parachuted in a duke to manage the newly created dukedom, and that person was the father of the current Duke of Munster, named Esther Bush. Gould, at that time, Esther was strongly resisted by the Cauchy family, and almost no one listened to him, but the old duke was quite cunning, he took advantage of the opportunity of the Cauchy family's infighting to provoke the greed and anger of several other earls against the Cauchy family, weakened the Cauchy family's influence in this place through the means of war, and brought in the power of the church, and through the secret support of the empire, he actually cultivated a strong force loyal to himself in the constant balance.
In this way, the Cauchy family continues to decline, and now the strength is not as good as before, if the purpose of the old emperor is to cut the domain, then the old Duke of Esther can be said to have completed this task perfectly, in fact, when the old Duke of Esther died, the old emperor also personally buried him in the cemetery, and now his body is still buried in the Heroic Cemetery in the imperial capital of Alfetem.
The current patriarch of the Cauchy family is the sorceress's father, Sandy Cauchy, from the sorceress's words, the white wolf understands that this guy is completely a model of doting children, and Alyssa's desires will basically be satisfied, because he saw that his daughter had a talent for magic, so he spent a lot of money to send Alyssa to the noble magic academy in the imperial capital for further study.
According to Alyssa, her mother, Ada, treats her very harshly, and White Wolf feels that without this stern mother, Alyssa would be spoiled. Ida is a very beautiful woman with strong economic and management skills, and her father usually consults with her mother when making decisions, and also hands over part of the family property to her mother to manage.
But one day, her mother suddenly fell ill and fell unconscious.
The day before her mother fell ill, she had met with the current Duke to discuss the alfalfa deal.
This made Alyssa suspect that the duke had done something to her mother, so she broke into the Duke's palace to try to find out the truth, but she was found to have caused a catastrophe.
When the white wolf heard this, he shook his head, it was really not advisable to blindly spoil the child, this spoiled witch felt that everything would go her way, this was a mistake of idealism, and at this point, the white wolf decided to take this as a warning, he must not make such a mistake.